Q 01/05
A) Bradley Cooper
B) James Marsden
C) Ryan Gosling
D) Hayden Christensen
Answer · why
The director wanted someone unknown and 'not handsome'; the actor's first reaction to being offered the part was 'He's crazy.'
Q 02/05
A) Kate Bosworth
B) Rachel McAdams
C) Amy Adams
D) Mandy Moore
Answer · why
The same year she played Regina George in Mean Girls, a role so different that one critic said it was hard to tell it was the same actress.
Q 03/05
A) Steven Spielberg
B) Lasse Hallström
C) Nick Cassavetes
D) Jim Sheridan
Answer · why
He cast his own mother, Gena Rowlands, as the older Allie, and his wife Heather Wahlquist as Allie's friend Sara.
Q 04/05
A) Danielle Steel
B) Nicholas Sparks
C) Nicholas Evans
D) Jodi Picoult
Answer · why
He wrote it in six months in 1994, inspired by his wife's grandparents, who had been married more than 60 years.
Q 05/05
A) 1940
B) 1935
C) 1952
D) 1946
Answer · why
The story then follows them through the war years to 1946, which the lead actor called a 'profound and formative' span to play.
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